Poonch terrorist hideout raided, ammunition seized; searches in Jammu and Kathua

The Story in Brief

Security forces busted a terrorist hideout in a remote village in Poonch district of J&K, officials said. The hideout, set up in a cave in Bhoriwala dhok of Surankote tehsil, was unearthed during a joint search by the Army’s Rashtriya Rifles and J&K Police on Wednesday morning. Troops seized two magazines of an AK assault rifle, 117 rounds of ammunition, and 17 rounds of 9mm pistol ammunition. Separate cordon-and-search operations in two other locations in Poonch continued without any sighting or contact with suspects; officials said three suspects were allegedly seen near Gujjar Naar and four more were spotted close to Kherowali dhok in the remote Dhara Sangla village of Surankote sector.

Joint teams also carried out cordon-and-search operations in Jammu’s Akhnoor sector and Kathua’s Hiranagar sector based on intelligence inputs. Around 2pm on Tuesday a suspected Pakistani drone was reported to have entered Indian airspace and hovered over forward villages Shukhmal, Devindera and Tapan in Bobiyan area of Hiranagar; BSF personnel tried to shoot it down but the UAV, flying at high altitude, returned across the border and a subsequent search found nothing. A joint CRPF and J&K Police search from Parshuram Temple to Jandi Nallah was described as an area-domination exercise, and the Army and police also launched combing in Sunail Panchayat of Akhnoor after a resident reported suspicious movement.

The Indian Opinion

The reporting relies heavily on official accounts and uses terms such as “suspected” and “allegedly,” signalling uncertainty about some claims. An ordinary reader should note that several searches produced no contact or recoveries, and the drone incident was reported to have returned across the border without any wreckage or capture. At the same time, the seizures at the cave and the joint operations are concrete facts cited by security agencies. Given the limited publicly available detail, it is reasonable to wait for further verification rather than treating unconfirmed sightings or border attributions as established fact.

Original article: Terrorist hideout busted in Poonch, ammo seized; search ops launched in Jammu, Kathua (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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